The aim of the Community Orchard Project is to produce food for local people, improve biodiversity and habitat for wildlife and plants, and maintain at green space within the allotment envelope. and help combat climate change, Our concern was to protect this site from housing developments or the guided busway.
Since acquiring the site, rubbish from many years of fly tipping has been removed and has been fenced in order to discourage further tipping. In Autumn 2007 bird and bat boxes were placed in the cherry thicket and on the 6th January 2008 much of the hedgrow was planted.
In February 2008 the hedgerow was completed. We planted nineteen Cambridgeshire Heritage apple trees and two plums, representing the full range of heritage fruit trees for Cambridgeshire.
